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...guard was very responsive, and he did call us,” she said. “The police came right away and were able to apprehend the individuals in question. We are in constant contact with the police, who are very forthcoming all the time and are doing the best that they...
...didn’t get iced.” But after Brown’s Colleen Kelly nailed a jumper with 19 seconds left to give Brown another four-point lead, Crimson rookie forward Katie Rollins corralled an offensive rebound on the ensuing possession and drew contact after making the layup. When Rollins, who led Harvard with 17 points, could not convert the free throw, Robinson sprinted to retrieve a tough, off-balance offensive rebound and was fouled by Hayes while tumbling out of bounds. Two more free throws later, the Crimson, which had trailed by as much...
That awkward contact presents another challenge for "sliders"--jokes from bemused spectators (the punch line of a Robin Williams riff on doubles luge: "Boys, get a room!"). Some brush them off: "If I wasn't luging, I'd be the one making fun of it," says Canada's Chris Moffat, a former singles rider now paired with younger brother Mike. Others take exception to the cracks. "O.K., we've heard the joke a million times," says Martin, 32, who won bronze with Grimmette in '98, silver in '02 and is chasing the U.S.'s first-ever luge gold...
Since skating routines are inherently sensual, off-ice contact is inevitable. Love has certainly worked for Melissa Gregory and Denis Petukhov, the other top U.S. dancing pair. Gregory met Petukhov, a Russian, five years ago on an Internet message board for skaters. Petukhov flew to Colorado to test the pairing. "If it wasn't going to work, I was going to put him right back on the plane and say, 'Adios, I'm going to college,'" says Gregory. The pair clicked on the ice, started dating after about two weeks and were married in five months. Skeptics chirped that Gregory...
...Palestinian Authority would play straight into the hands of the extremists among them." The diplomat suggested that there were possibly important differences, for instance, between the EU's relationship with full members of Hamas as opposed to those independent candidates who profited from Hamas's support. "We have technical contact with several Hamas mayors, and we can imagine maintaining that more easily than political contact with Hamas leadership. But those are questions for the future: For now, the ball is in their court...